Latest Posts from The Digerati Life (page 85)

This is a guest post from Grant Baldwin, the author of Reality Check, a book about helping students transition into the real world. His new website, BrokePiggy.com, answers questions from teenagers about personal finance, savings, and all things money.
This series “12 Things Every Teenager Needs To Know About Money (And How To Teach Them)” is a community blog experience. […]

In tough economic times, one of the first industries to take a hit is the travel industry. Trips to Disney World and Caribbean cruises seem a bit frivolous to most people when they’re looking at a 30% - 50% decline in the value of their investments and/or are worried about becoming another statistic in the ever-lengthening line at the unemployment office. […]

Happy Easter to everyone! We’re having our traditional family get together today, but I’m squeezing in this photo gallery to whet your appetite for chocolate easter eggs. Found these on AOL UK (an older post, but the eggs look so delicious!). They look sumptuous, unique and perfect for chocolate lovers who have everything. […]

Here are some of our ideas and tips on how to set up your home office.
Earlier on, we shared some general pointers on how to start an online business, where we talked about how to open an eBay store or build a website or blog. This time, I thought to put together a resource list for what we’d need to equip the home office. […]

We’re finally going to get a tax refund this year, for the first time ever!
Some good news for us this tax year. For the first time ever (that’s over 2 decades, mind you), we’re actually getting a pretty hefty tax refund. […]

Credit Card Debt Is Down By Almost 10%
There’s a nice silver lining to this recession and credit crisis isn’t there? From the Alpha Consumer blog (US News), I read about how credit card debt has fallen close to 10% (that’s 9.7%), which is the greatest drop since 1978. Reasons for the drop in card spending? Simple, cardholders are spending less. […]

When Tip’d first launched a while back, I talked about this social news portal in some detail. Well the guys there have worked hard to get Tip’d growing at a great pace. A lot of my blogging peers use it often and it’s a place where you’ll find high quality financial information and articles to enjoy and learn from. […]

In light of what happened to Zecco last week, would you still open an account with them? My thoughts on the matter, as a former IT engineer who has worked at a top discount brokerage.
I’m covering yet another brokerage, and have been focusing a bit on investment topics lately. […]

TradeKing is one of the most popular online brokers around, and I consider it one of my top picks. As it is, I’ve got a lot of brokerage accounts (for the sake of diversification), but I’d read a lot about the merits of TradeKing, given their various awards in the online world, that I thought to give them an even closer look and a more in-depth review. […]

Bargaineering is a blog that chronicles my personal finance life and where I discuss matters of shopping, insurance, investing, retirement, loans, credit cards, mortgages, bargain hunting and other issues in my life.